Kathleen Moore had an interview with Mark DeMocker, talking about climate change and house our generation has made no effort, and how we are so forgetful about the issues going on around us. In this interview Moore said “A new experiment may yet emerge. It needs to happen soon” (5). This is referring to a … [Read more…]

The only way social change can happen is if it is by large numbers, a group of people coming together as one. The social action happened by a large conversation or action taking place at the moment. And this is easiest achieved by being in a large group of people. Bill McKibben documentary “Do The … [Read more…]

Reading Charles Duhigg’s ‘From Civil Rights to Megachurches’ I learned about a three-step process to social change. Duhigg suggests that peer pressure is a way to create social change. This is a very popular idea because we have seen it before with Hallward and Epstein. The idea of peer pressure is to make a bigger … [Read more…]

‘Do The Math’ is a political movement focusing on climate change and how to change out ways to decrease the speed of which it is happening. This was created by Bill McKibben along with seven undergraduate students. Their website 350.org is getting more and more popular, with the more an more conversations that are happening … [Read more…]

I believe that the fear of missing out is a real thing, teenagers are getting depressed, but not telling it to anyone. Though there is a lot of information and statistics, there are still people that think that technology really has no connection to mental health. They don’t think that keeping too up to date … [Read more…]

Question: Is FOMO real?   I 100% believe that the fear of missing out is real. And I can say from first-hand experience that it is real. But, I will say that it happens more in middle school and freshman year when everyone was still trying to figure out their friend groups and who they wanted … [Read more…]

While reading Alexandra Samuels ‘Plug In Better: A Manifesto’ I realized how her view on distraction is different from Andersons. Though Anderson goes off on some tangents here and there talking about Adderall use and becoming less creative, he says that technology is the one that is distracting us, and we get too distracted all … [Read more…]

Writing about “So what? Who cares?” is important. This is where you can hook your reader into reading something they might not even be interested in. It’s just like a big colorful picture, something that draws your attention in. Its the topic sentence, it’s painting a picture, it’s making the reader question themselves on why … [Read more…]

I feel that in Jean Twenge’s Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? she is almost trying to blame someone for what is happening with technology. It seems as if she can’t live with the fact that this is all happening collectively, with all generations, and she’s trying to point fingers at who it is affecting the … [Read more…]

When reading Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? By Jean Twenge I made a lot of connections. She talks a lot about how generations are almost falling apart because of our addiction to our screens. There was a lot of topics that were covered in this text and I honestly have to say that I personally … [Read more…]